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From: fredvau on 28 Oct 2009 06:20 I have a home computer, a work computer and an Acer laptop which has an inbuilt Broadcom modem and a wireless modem. The 3 machines are on a home network and are all hardwired to a router attached to the work computer. Two computers have XP Home SP3 and the laptop has XP Pro SP3Wireless on the laptop is disabled because the location of the computers do not always communicate succesfully. My local area network on the laptop shows a wireless connection (which I have disabled), a 1394 connection (I have also disabled) and a local area connection. I boot the computers in the order of the work computer with the router, then the home computer if I need to use it and lastly the laptop. The modem is turned on at all times. Recently when I boot the laptop, there is no Internet or LAN connection. Checking the network connections shows that LAN is disabled. I enable, LAN connects and all is well. On re-boot LAN is again showing as being disabled on the laptop. Each time I boot the laptop I have to open network connections and enable LAN. This phenomenon started only last week. Until then I never had a problem. The other computers do not have this problem. Can anyone suggest how I can correct this so that the LAN connects at boot time of my laptop? I have noticed that momentarily the connection icon shows up in the quick launch area and then disappears. -- fredvau ------------------------------------------------------------------------ fredvau's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/149477.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/1264172.htm http://forums.techarena.in |